http://e26whn2524322mkxb3cbyk27ev2ihhq2biz35hty7gzgsyrwrygq27yd.onion/posts/blog/security/digging-into-the-behaviour-of-a-self-authenticating-mastodon-scraper-bot.html
The bot's author, for their part, took steps to try and increase accountability for the bot's behaviour, providing an audit trail to link requests back. Unfortunately, this actually resulted in a request pattern which - at first glance - is potentially quite alarming.